Monday (5/11) – “A Case of the Mondays”: It isn’t always so terrible to have a “Case of the Mondays”: purchase a case of UCBC bier from our Midtown Brewery & Biergarten or Grove Brewery & Bierhall and get UCBC SWAG!

Tuesday (5/12) – Prost! to STL Women’s Craft Beer Clubs: St. Louis is fortunate to have some wonderful groups dedicated to celebrating women in craft beer. We’re inviting all women who love craft beer, including Femme Ferment, St. Louis Girls Pint Out, and The OG to our Grove Brewery & Bierhall to celebrate with $4 beers for all female beer fanatics!

Friday (5/15) – Cardinals & Craft Beer: Support local! Wear St. Louis Cardinals or UCBC gear to our Midtown Brewery & Biergarten or our Grove Brewery & Bierhall and get $4 STLIPAs! With the Detroit Tigers in town for the weekend, we’ll also feature three guest taps from Michigan brewery Jolly Pumpkin!

Saturday (5/16)– Oktoberfest in May: Oktoberfest is only 4 months away; it’s not too early to begin the preparations with German food, German music, and Masskrugstemmen (stein holding contest)! It’ll be just like Oktober…er…September, except we’ll have a whole Summer of Biergarten days to look forward to!

Sunday (5/17)– Sustainability Sunday: Did you know that our Grove Brewery & Bierhall is the only LEED Certified Brewery in Missouri? That means part of our Urban Efforts involves access to public transportation and access to bicycle parking. Join us in promoting sustainability by taking Metro St. Louis or riding your bike to the Grove Brewery & Bierhall on Sunday May 17, and receive $3 Zwickels! Just show us your bike or a valid Metro St. Louis pass.

ALL WEEK – VIP Tour and Tasting: Our Self-Guided Tours at the Grove Brewery & Bierhall is debuting the option for a VIP Tour & Tasting! The purchase of a VIP Tour and Tasting comes with a souvenir glass and punch card good for four samples of UCBC bier!

Social Media Contest: We want to know how you Biergarten*! Share your best photos from the Midtown Brewery & Biergarten on Twitter and Instagram and use the hashtag #ucbcBiergartening. The best photo will be rewarded with a $25 gift certificate redeemable at the Midtown Brewery & Biergarten!

*”To Biergarten” or “Biergartening” is a verb meaning to enjoy a day/evening in the Biergarten.

Civil Life Brewing

We are going to be celebrating American Craft Beer Week at the pub and we are calling it a Civil Week of Cask. This will run from Tuesday, May 12 at 4pm until Saturday, May 16 at 10pm. We will be pouring traditional cask all week long.

Craft Beer Cellar

1 – Cathedral Square – 5/12 – 4PM to 7PM

We got a keg of St. Jewbelation which is barrel aged in Hebrew Funky Jewbelation barrels (which as you know is a blend of several different barrel aged beers). We’ll be tapping this at 5 PM. This one is free to sample. Cathedral Square dudes will be on hand to sample out all of their beers.

2 – Abita – 5/13 – 6PM to 9PM

We got a keg of Pappy van Winkel barrel aged Baltic Porter and the Macciato milk stout. Both will be tapped at 6PM. They are free to sample and pours are $4. The Abita folks will be on hand to sample all of their seasonal and regular lineup beers.

3 – New Holland – 5/14 – 5PM to 8PM

We are featuring Dragons Milk, Beer Barrel Bourbon, and donuts from Strange Donuts MADE with Dragons Milk! This one will be a lot of fun! It’s free to attend, free samples, and free dones.

4 – 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY – 5/16 – ALL DAY

Our 1 year anniversary party is coming up this week. We’re getting a TON of awesome stuff on draft. Take a look at this:

Civil Life Super Hopped Rye Pale Ale – 10 AMThese guys never leave their wheelhouse. But we got them to make us a cask dry-hopped variant of their gold medal Rye Pale ale!

Perennial Kiwi Berliner – 1 PMThey brewed us a special beer for our anniversary. You cannot get this bad boy anywhere else!

4 Hands Pineapple Contact High – 4 PMWe got them to make us a pineapple variant of Contact High

2nd Shift ??? – 7 PMCrider is making us a mystery beer. We have ABSOLUTELY no idea what to expect here. But we know it’s going to be crazy!

Plus, all day, we’re going to have 2 beers on draft that are 100% free. We’re limiting this to 1 of each per person so it can spread way out but it’s free ALL FREAKIN DAY!

Whole Foods Galleria

Come on down to Whole Foods Market on Brentwood for a HUGE 25% off all beer sale, one day only, 5/16/15. Special orders welcome and encouraged!

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You may have heard a few things about Soulard’s newest pizza joint, Pizzeoli. You may have read some of the stellarreviews or heard people raving about it. But the thing you may have heard most is… it’s vegetarian.

Gasp! Oh, whatever will a meat eater do? I’ll tell you what you’ll do, you’ll visit Pizzeoli and enjoy one of the finest Neapolitan-style pizzas in our region. I promise, you won’t miss the meat. You know who also produces world-class examples of classic styles? The Civil Life Brewing Company.

Worlds collide tomorrow, Tuesday, April 7th, providing you the opportunity to enjoy to examples of old school techniques when Pizzeoli hosts Civil Life for a tap takeover. Running all day long, Pizzeoli will be featuring two of Civil Life’s newest creations, the Wee Bit Heavy and the Angel and the Sword.

What’s the Angel and the Sword you ask? I’ll let Jake Hafner fill you in:

Angel and The Sword seems like an odd name for a peace offering, but hear us out. Sometimes you just have to blend cultures. Toledo, Spain is an UNESCO World Heritage Site called “the city of three cultures” for the continuous coexistence of Jews, Christians, and Muslims since ancient times. They haven’t always gotten along, at times horrendously so, but they do their best. Iron sharpens iron, as their good books say.

An area famed for sword production, our favourite monument remains Juan de Ávalos’ “statue of peace” outside Alcázar fortress, representing a winged female holding up her sword to the sky. Here is a great craft beer which IS NOT IPA. A departure from true-to-style brewing, we put a little bit of everything we’ve learned into this uniquely inclusive expression. Biscuity and bittersweet, familiar and unfamiliar, way more going on than its light colour and alcohol content would suggest. Let us raise our goblets to the sky in one accord.

The Wee Bit Heavy is a 6.5% Scottish-style ale featuring Golden Promise, Marris Otter, and Rahr Pale malts, and Magnum and Progress hops. Along with these two new beers, Pizzeoli will be featuring the English IPA and American Brown.

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Some of us, like yours truly have never known a world without Llywelyn’s Pub. They’ve now been in St. Louis for over 40 years. To celebrate this amazing accomplishment Llywelyn’s has partnered with a couple of local breweries to brew a special ale.

The first in these special collaborations is a collaboration into itself as Llywelyn’s partnered with Schlafly and Civil Life Brewing to create a beer that they’ve deemed as a “Welsh Ale.” This very special beer features the same ABV, SRM, IBUs and malt bill. The only difference are the types of hops used.

This Welsh Ale is 5.0% ABV, 20 IBU and 15 SRM. The malt bill features Marris Otter, Crystal, Amber, and Torrified Wheat. Schlafly version used Admiral and East Kent Goldings hops, while the Civil Life version used Fuggles.

Llyweyln’s will be tapping the Schlafly version of this beer(which they’ve dubbed Volume 1) at 3PM at all of their locations. As part of their “Brew You Never Knew” series, the Webster and St. Charles locations will be serving up the a firkin of this special beer. We can expect the Civil Life version in the near future as well.

Congrats to Llywelyn’s for this very special anniversary! Head on out to try this fantastic collaboration.

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The Civil Life Brewing Company has made a name for itself by not only providing one of the best tasting room experiences in St. Louis, but by crafting some of the best session ales in the world. Well, big changes are coming to Civil Life and owner Jake Hafner was nice enough to give us the inside scoop.

The two biggest changes coming in the brewery. Civil Life has added two 60bbl fermenters to their brewery which will help to expand their yearly brewing capacity. What will they do with all of that expansion? Well, they’re putting in a canning line that should be operational this August. That’s right, you’ll soon be able to find 16oz (proper pints, please!) Civil Life beers in your favorite retail markets.

If that’s not big enough, Civil Life has also expanded its sales territory and has partnered with Koerner Distributor in Southern Illinois. So you east side folks that have been looking to get Civil should be able to see it in your watering holes soon.

But the news keeps getting bigger, in this case bigger as in ABV. To celebrate all of this big news Civil Life is crafting three special higher ABV offerings that will range from 6.5%-7%. The first offering, which is a bigger version of their world-class American Brown, will be available this evening at their tasting room and they’re calling it Big Year Brown.

One final bit of news is that Civil Life is partnering with STL Hops for our second collaboration beer (more news on the first coming soon) called Gordian Knot Bock which will be part of this new 6.5-7% line-up. Big news for everyone and big hugs to Civil Life for being so awesome.